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PostGIS 2.1.9 Released
The PostGIS development team has uploaded the final release of the PostGIS 2.1 branch. The 2.1 branch is now end-of-life. As befits a patch release, the focus is on bugs and breakages.
PostGIS 2.4.0rc1 Released
The PostGIS development team is pleased to announce the release of PostGIS 2.4.0rc1. Best served with PostgreSQL 10beta4 or rc1 which is coming soon and pgRouting 2.5.0rc 2.5.0 release is eminent. See the full list of changes in the news file.
We encourage everyone to test and in particular package maintainers to insure no surprises at final release time.
IMPORTANT NOTES
If you are upgrading from an existing PostGIS install, make sure after installing PostGIS 2.4.0rc1 binaries to do.
ALTER EXTENSION postgis UPDATE;
— if you have additional postgishy extensions below upgrade them too
ALTER EXTENSION postgis_sfcgal UPDATE; ALTER EXTENSION postgis_topology UPDATE; ALTER EXTENSION postgis_tiger_geocoder UPDATE; --pgRouting 2.5.0 is imminent ALTER EXTENSION pgrouting UPDATE;
In order to have Map Box Vector Tiles support enabled, you’ll need to compile with protobuf support and pkg-config to verify the correct minimum version of protobuf-c see protobuf for details. ST_FrechetDistance function will not be enabled if PostGIS is compiled with lower than GEOS 3.7.0. GEOS 3.7.0 will probably not be released before PostGIS 2.4.0 is out.
- Source Download
- html doc download (this version includes Japanese translation postgis-ja.html)
- pdf doc download
- epub doc download
- ChangeLog
PostGIS 2.4.0beta1 Released
The PostGIS development team is pleased to announce the release of PostGIS 2.4.0beta1. PostGIS 2.4.0 will be the first version to support PostgreSQL 10. Best served with PostgreSQL 10beta4 and pgRouting 2.5.0beta See the full list of changes in the news file.
We encourage everyone to test and in particular package maintainers to insure no surprises at final release time.
IMPORTANT NOTES
From this point forward until release of PostGIS 2.4.0, no new functions will be added.
Only bug fixes will be addressed in future 2.4.0 betas and rcs.
In order to have Map Box Vector Tiles support enabled, you’ll need to compile with protobuf support and pkg-config to verify the correct minimum version of protobuf-c see protobuf for details. ST_FrechetDistance function will not be enabled if PostGIS is compiled with lower than GEOS 3.7.0. GEOS 3.7.0 will be released around the same time as PostGIS 2.4.0 and will have a beta release in a week.
- Source Download
- html doc download (this version includes Japanese translation postgis-ja.html)
- pdf doc download
- epub doc download
- ChangeLog